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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JOSHUA</span>
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CHAPTER 9
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Gibeonites by craft obtain a league with Israel—Joshua makes them servants to congregation of Israel.
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And</span> it came to pass, when all the kings which <i>were</i> on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 34: 6.">sea</a> over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard <i>thereof;</i>
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That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
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&#182; And when the inhabitants of <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 10: 2; 1 Kgs. 3: 4.">Gibeon</a> heard what <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/9/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 6: 27.">Joshua</a> had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
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They did work <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/4a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR craftily, with cunning.">wilily</a>, and went and <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/9/4b" mark="b" type="D" title="Other Heb. MSS.: made ready provisions. (See v. 12.).">made</a> as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR old, patched shoes upon.">old</a> shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry <i>and</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="josh/9/5b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR had become crumbs.">mouldy</a>.
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And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
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And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/7a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR covenant, treaty (also v. 11, 15, 16); Judg. 2: 2; Alma 44: 15 (6-15, 20); 3 Ne. 6: 3.">league</a> with you?
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And they said unto Joshua, We <i>are</i> thy servants.  And Joshua said unto them, Who <i>are</i> ye?  and from whence come ye?
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And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God: for we have <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 2: 10.">heard</a> the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
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And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that <i>were</i> beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 1: 4; Deut. 3: 11 (10-11).">Og</a> king of Bashan, which <i>was</i> at Ashtaroth.
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Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB bread, or provisions (also v. 14).">victuals</a> with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We <i>are</i> your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.
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This our bread we took hot <i>for</i> our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
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And these bottles of wine, which we filled, <i>were</i> new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
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And the men took of their victuals, and asked not <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 27: 21; Jacob 4: 10; Alma 37: 37; D&C 3: 4."><i>counsel</i></a> at the mouth of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR covenanted.">sware</a> unto them.
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&#182; And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they <i>were</i> their neighbours, and <i>that</i> they dwelt among them.
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And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day.  Now their cities <i>were</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 21: 2.">Gibeon</a>, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.
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And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel.  And all the congregation <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Murmuring.">murmured</a> against the princes.
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But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
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This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
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And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 29: 11 (10-13).">hewers</a> of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
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&#182; And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/22a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR deceived; Alma 18: 23.">beguiled</a> us, saying, We <i>are</i> very far from you; when ye dwell among us?
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Now therefore ye <i>are</i> cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
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And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 7: 2 (1-4).">destroy</a> all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
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And now, behold, we <i>are</i> in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
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And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
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And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, even unto this day, in the <sup>a</sup><a href="josh/9/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 31: 11 (9-13).">place</a> which he should choose.
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